by Jill Burbery | Sep 28, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
ROCK ISLAND, Wash. — As growers plant the new Cosmic Crisp apple variety for the first time next spring, they need to think about what type of tree structure will be best-suited for robotic apple picking, a research scientist says. “Cosmic Crisp should work great for...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 23, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
Researchers continue to educate growers about the ins and outs of growing the new Washington State University apple variety Cosmic Crisp™. Among other tips, researchers are advising growers to avoid Manchurian crab apple pollenizers, and to use covers and overhead...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 21, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
YAKIMA, Wash. — The countdown to takeoff for Cosmic Crisp has begun. Though commercial planting of trees won’t begin until next year and the apple be available to consumers until 2020, shipments of the variety could approach 5 million cartons by 2022. Cristy Warnock,...
by Jill Burbery | Sep 14, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp, Featured News
EPHRATA, Wash. — Ricardo Santacruz stoops over a small rootstock tree and slices a notch in its trunk a few inches above the ground so fast that if you blink you’ll miss it. With equal speed he slices a bud from a short chunk of Cosmic Crisp apple limb from a bundle...
by Jill Burbery | Jun 13, 2016 | Cosmic Crisp
Researchers Offer More Tips For Growing WA 38, Including Girdling. Stefano Musacchi, research horticulturalist for the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, discusses the “click” technique of management on Cosmic Crisp plantings during...
